Malachi 1:5

Malachi 1:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.
• New International Version (NIV)You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the Lord—even beyond the borders of Israel!’
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!"
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, ‘The Lord is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’

Context of Malachi 1:5

3but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.” 4Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may build, but I will tear down; and people will call them the territory of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is indignant forever.” And your eyes will see this, and you will say, “The Lord be exalted beyond the border of Israel!” 6“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of armies to you, the priests who despise My name! But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’ 7You are presenting defiled food upon My altar. But you say, ‘How have we defiled You?’ In that you say, ‘The table of the Lord is to be despised.’

Malachi 1:5 word by word

וְעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם תִּרְאֶ֑ינָה וְאַתֶּ֤ם תֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ יִגְדַּ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל לִגְב֥וּל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

• And your eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• will seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• and you will sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• The Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• be exaltedגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
• beyondמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480
• beyondעַל‛al · uponH5921
• borderגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: boundaryH1366
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478

Cross-references for Malachi 1:5

• Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the Lord has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, the Lord your God has destroyed them from among you.
• Deuteronomy 11:7but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.
• Joshua 24:7But when they cried out to the Lord, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
• 1 Samuel 12:16Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the Lord is going to do before your eyes.
• 2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore the wrath of the Lord was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
• Luke 10:23Turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see;
• Psalms 35:26May those be ashamed and altogether humiliated who rejoice at my distress; May those who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and dishonor.
• Psalms 58:10The righteous will rejoice when he sees vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
• Psalms 83:17May they be ashamed and dismayed forever, And may they be humiliated and perish,
• Ezekiel 38:16and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy through you before their eyes, Gog.”
• Ezekiel 39:21“And I will place My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.

Commentaries on Malachi 1:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Your eyes - Ye Israelites shall see, in your succeeding generations, that: - The Lord will be magnified - By his kindness in Israel, and his judgments beyond.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5And your eyes shall see - Malicious pleasure in looking on at the misery of Judaea and Jerusalem, had been a special sin of Edom: now God would show Judah the fruit of its reversal, and His goodness toward themselves., “Ye have assurance of His love toward you and providence over you, when ye see that ye are returned to your own land, and can inhabit it, but they cannot do this: but “they build and I throw down,” and ye, therefore, praise and magnify My…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-5Malachi’s sermons use a literary form called disputation (a structured argument). This form sounds like a courtroom scene and gives the message the tone of a trial. In the first disputation, the prophet states the central truth that God loves Israel (Malachi 1:2). After this, the prophet challenges the people and responds to their objections. He develops this main claim through five additional messages that follow.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. from the border of Israel--Ye, restored to your own "borders" in Israel, "from" them shall raise your voices to "magnify the Lord," acknowledging that Jehovah has shown to you a gratuitous favor not shown to Edom, and so ought to be especially "magnified from the borders of Israel."Read the comment

Topics related to Malachi 1:5

• Edomites

In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Malachi, Prophecies of
• Malachi
• Nabataeans; Nabathaeans
• Obadiah, Book of

Commentaries on Malachi 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings